The prices are extortionate.
Did Man.C even pay for their stadium to be built? I thought Manchester City council stumped up most of the cost for the Olympics/Commonwealth games or something like that, from memory, no?
Otherwise I cannot see how their prices are so low. If I remember rightly, that was one of the primary reasons they were bought out by the sheiks because they didn't have to build a new stadium. By all accounts, had we have had a new stadium or expanded our own, our club would have been snavelled up by the super rich who could have just come in and thrown money at the team. As it stands, we've therefore got owners who have to think long term and sustainable.
As for the two giants in Spain, well I'm pretty sure over the years Madrid have been propped up by the State which is totally illegal. I read an article months back where Madrid council had a bit of land by the bernabeu and that Madrid wanted to buy it off them for a car park/training ground or to put shops on, whatever. The club bought the land for (I can't remember the exact price) for half a million Euros or thereabouts, then sold it back to the council a few years later for something like 22 M Euros.
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